It feels like everything I’m thinking about returns again and again to attention

• rituals producing sacred objects? condensed representation of what we want to pay attention to

• good art? an encapsulated world of one particular way of paying attention, into which you as the viewer can step into

• jungian cognitive functions? the weights that determine what we pay the most attention to over our lives that creates consistent patterns of problems

• superstitions? attention shapers to remind you of what’s important

• awakened awareness? that which becomes unveiled through placing attention on direct experience and noticing what remains across all instances of attention

• cultivating taste? “… a commitment to a state of attention” (Wolfson)